I'm ashamed of my dating history, how do you 30+ females cope with this?
I dont want to go into too much detail, but I've dated a lot of non-asian men in the past, and now that i've reached a certain age, I regret it, especially when I think about how I treated this one asian friend who was one of the best guys to enter my life, looking back now I shouldve listened to him and dated him instead, but I know if i told him my secrets he'd end up getting hurt. I know fore sure I cant message him now without things ending up a toxic mess. The only men who seem interested in me now are those twice my age. And especially asian men are put off when I mention my dating history.
Someone even jokingly called me a bananarang in my face, and i didnt even know what it was until I looked it up. I know it's my fault for dating out and excluding asian men when i was younger, but I also consumed alot of western media and had alot of non asian friends. I was also raised by a single mother who remarried and had a son, so i never felt like i belonged even in my own family. My dad left when I was 4, and I remember how my mother cried alone because of it, i know generelizing is bad but this did put me off from dating asian men.
Are there any asian women my age with a similar story? how do you handle this pressure and treatment from society. Do you ever feel guilt towards your background?